George Buck Jr.

George Buck Jr. was an American US Army veteran, firefighter, and author who ran for a Florida district in the US House of Representatives as a Republican in 2020.

Biography
George Buck Jr. was born in Long Island, New York, and he became a junior firefighter at the age of 14 and later joined the US Army, serving in the US 101st Airborne Division and as a US Air Force reservist. He then became a first responder, and his career was ended after a duty-related injury. However, Buck went on to become an assistant professor at the University of South Florida College of Public Health, teaching classes on international terrorism. In 2019, he announced that he would run for the US House of Representatives as a Republican candidate for Florida's 13th district. On 4 December 2019, it was discovered that he had written a 26 November email in which he called for Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ilhan Omar to be hanged as "traitors", also claiming that Omar was a foreign agent. In response to the violent email, the Republican Party dropped its endorsement of him.